Screenrant | Hannibal: 'Leave Them With A Smile' Review

There are several important and revealing lines in ‘Secondo’ that help make sense of what Hannibal is attempting in terms of peeking behind the proverbial curtain to see what makes Dr. Lecter the monster that he is. As the latter novels of Hannibal creator Thomas Harris and the films based on them (i.e., Hannibal and, to a more egregious degree, Hannibal Rising) can attest, this is a dangerous path to walk on. The more we know about what makes Hannibal Lecter tick, the less frightening he becomes.